A Teen Once Left Flowers on Strangers’ Cars Just Because. Now Her Family Does It for Her

Nichole Weigel walked out to her car after work and found something tucked under her windshield wiper.

It was a flower. And attached to it was a little note of encouragement from someone she had never met.

“Kind of a nice end to your day,” she said.

She wasn’t the only one. Dozens of people leaving the two hospitals in Bismarck, North Dakota, found the same surprise waiting on their cars. What none of them knew yet was that the idea came from a 16-year-old girl who wasn’t there to see it.

Two Best Friends and a Bored Afternoon

A few months ago, Taylor Fisher and her best friend, Taylor Paszek, were bored.

So the two teens from Mandan came up with a plan. They wrote short notes of encouragement, attached them to flowers, and placed them on the windshields of cars parked at Bismarck’s hospitals. Then they made a TikTok about it.

It was the kind of thing you do on a slow day and forget about. Nobody thought twice about the video.

Until they needed it.

“She Was Our World”

In early October 2026, Taylor died from injuries she suffered in a car crash in Bismarck. Her boyfriend, Ben Moch, also died after the same crash. Both were students at Mandan High School.

“She was our world,” her dad, Billy Fisher, told KFYR. “We did everything for her, with her and about her.”

The people who knew Taylor all describe her the same way.

“She’s very, very kind. And I know everybody says that about everyone, but she actually was,” said Paszek. “She would go out of her way to make other people’s lives easier.”

“She’s our baby and most kindhearted girl you can imagine,” Billy said. “She just worried about other people more than herself.”

The Video Her Parents Found

In the middle of their grief, Taylor’s parents came across that old TikTok of the two Taylors and their flowers.

And they decided to do it again, this time for her.

So her family and friends gathered flowers, wrote out notes, and spread out across the parking lots of Bismarck’s two hospitals, the same places Taylor had picked. One by one, the flowers went onto the windshields of strangers who had no idea who had left them, or why.

“She was taken from us, but you can’t change that,” said her mom, Sue Fisher. “So, we’re trying to find the good in it.”

“Hopefully it makes someone’s day,” she added.

Think about who parks at a hospital. Someone finishing a 12-hour shift. Someone who just got hard news. Someone who has been sitting beside a hospital bed all day. For a few of them, a flower and a kind note from a stranger may have been the only good surprise of the day.

A Town That Wouldn’t Let Go

The flowers were not the only way people refused to let Taylor and Ben be forgotten.

Hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil at Mandan High School, and the school later held a joint funeral for the two teens in its gym. Taylor played tennis and was a member of Future Business Leaders of America. Ben wore number 11 for the school’s hockey team.

Mandan’s athletes carried them along too. According to a local report, the girls’ golf team wrote “Taylor and Ben” on the golf balls they played at the state tournament, and the girls’ cross country team wrote “B+T” and “Mandan Strong” on their legs during a meet.

“Two great lives cut way too short,” Sue said.

“She Started It”

For Taylor’s family, the flowers are not a one-time thing.

“It’s all because of Taylor. She started it,” Billy said.

“We’re just going to continue,” said Sue. The family told KFYR they’ll likely hand out more flowers and notes to keep their daughter’s memory alive, and they have also set up a scholarship in her name.

“I think she’d be really happy that we’re all doing this,” said Paszek.

It started as two bored best friends with a handful of flowers. Now, every time someone in Bismarck finds a note on their windshield, a little bit of Taylor’s kindness is still out there, doing exactly what she wanted it to do.

“She did make an impact,” Sue said.